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No we are not sick and tired of Skype, just extremely tired of seeing thousands of articles flying around the internet in the past week trashing Skype in every conceivable manner.

We are not even going to bother to list any of these articles , a quick search on Yahoo or Google news will reveal 2699 article postings alone on Google News on the evening of the 21 August 2007!!

All these so called doomsday experts comming out of the woodwork now to add their 2 cent opinion on what appears to be a freak bug, which went undetected in Skype's software for 2-3 years - so what.

If any of these authors can with 100% confidence admit that any software they have ever been involved with has been 100% bug free then we will eat our words.

We are by no means fans of Skype, but in the past 3 years we have been using them, besides other VoIP services, Skype was until last week the only service which was 100% reliable. We never experienced any problems whatsoever. Besides being 100% reliable it is extremely cheap and 220 million users cannot be lying.

Get a life!

 

 

It is very rare that we get excited about yet another new VoIP application, but the latest version of Fring really got us going.

What is Fring?

Fring is a mobile VoIP application utilizing your mobile internet connection (Wi-Fi, 3G, GPRS) to make peer-to-peer VoIP calls, send instant messages and talk with VoIP applications such as Skype, Google Talk , MSN Messenger and any other SIP service provider at no extra cost.

Not only is it extremely easy to install, provided that you own one of their supported mobile phones (only Nokia at this stage), but now Fring allows you to setup any SIP service in the world (well almost - we have not checked them all).

It is almost a VoIP Service Aggregator, allowing the user to keep the settings of his favourite VoIP services all in one place.

It took us no more than 10-15 minutes to download the latest Fring mobile application on our Nokia E61, setup our Skype, Googletalk and MSN accounts and add the SIP details of our favourite SIP service.

And the beauty of it all - It actually works.